drivenbyboredom

Recent Actions

• Commented on Jonathan Worth tries out a copy-friendly photography business-experiment
  As a photographer I think this is a great idea and I want to support it, but I am also prohibitively broke so it was great to have an $8 option. I hope this ends up working out....
• Commented on Zombie haiku contest -- best entry wins the game of Plants vs. Zombies
  At war with the shark Taste of brain everlasting Tina is this love?...
• Commented on Obama Shoes
  They just took the swoosh off a Nike Air Force 1. Even the sole is identical....
• Commented on HOWTO make a $300 high-speed book scanner
  I scanned books for archive.org with a scanner not much different... You know, except for the fact that the cameras cost 5 times as much as this whole set up does... Then again maybe if they used cheaper cameras I...
• Commented on Goose doesn't like sweet natured doggy
  I feel like I saw that video over a year ago. Maybe 2....
• Commented on Warner Music Group artist has her own videos taken off YouTube by WMG
  I was just looking at the Human Giant website and their videos were taken down by Viacom......
• Commented on Boing Boing Video: Our 4-part Glen E. Friedman/Shepard Fairey miniseries
  Wow. That is amazing. The photo of Ian McKaye in the video I bought from Glen several years ago. He had never printed it that big until I wanted a copy. I am sure the one in the show was...
• Commented on To do in LA: Glen E. Friedman's photo show at Shepard Fairey's gallery
  Glen was probably my biggest inspiration to start taking photos. I have been lucky enough to meet him and once in a while I will send him some images and his criticism has been extremely helpful in my work....
• Commented on Last days of an NYC library
  hey guys. it was great to come home from work and hear all these stories and things. i am glad i could have taken these photos for everyone. and @cassinglerevival thanks for the info, I am going to post it...
• Commented on Punks need socks in Indiana
  @TJIC I am not even going to begin to list the hundreds of reasons why people can't work that does not involve them being lazy. That is so ignorant I can't even imagine. The thing that you might not know...
• Commented on Quincy "punk episode"
  The Quincy Punx covered Pain. Wish I could find that.....
• Commented on Full album from Sonseed, the 1980s Christian band that did "Jesus is a Friend of Mine"
  slip knot has a friend in jesus too.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5HDH1FhEsY...
• Commented on Stop motion film by PES: Western Spaghetti
  This is super old.. The strange thing was I thought I saw it on here first... hmm... guess not....
• Commented on Report: Massive, warrantless raids on peace protesters in Minneapolis, ahead of RNC.
  i am wondering what all this has to do with mullets......
• Commented on Freaks (1932 Tod Browning movie) at Archive.org
  i work at archive.org and today i scanned 5346 pages of pre 1929 books. a personal record....
• Commented on We need alternative sources of bandwidth just like we need alternative sources of fuel
  wow. i spent an hour thinking about this last night. at this point in my life i cannot live without the internet, but that is sort of what i do. at some point the web is going to be such...
• Commented on NYU student shares his "virtual girlfriend" with the world
  this would be a great art project for arts sake to use it as a replacement for a woman is just creepy...
• Commented on New release at archive.org: The Hoodlum (1951)
  i am just scanning public domain books at the new york public library. its not the most exciting job ever, but it is fun and it is good to be doing something I care about, even if it is just...
• Commented on New release at archive.org: The Hoodlum (1951)
  hey! i just started working for the internet archive on monday!...
• Commented on Sweet stop-motion video of paintings on public spaces
  the painting stop motion reminds me of the video for the song left hand by a band i manage the gaskets http://www.drivenbyboredom.com/2007/05/22/plug-plug-plug/...
• Commented on SMS data rate is 4x more expensive than data from the Hubble
  i have unlimited texts for like $10 extra a month. i make roughly 1500 texts a month so thats like 1.5 cents a text. not defending cell phone companies, but you can also send a picture message for the same...
• Commented on Hilarious money doodles
  i sold a similar thing on ebay... http://www.drivenbyboredom.com/2007/05/02/return-of-the-ebay-rare-dollar-bill/ i feel like his would go for more money @Falcon.. it is silly to think anyone would possibly care about this....
• Commented on HOWTO make a chili mister
  I was once at a BBQ and the burgers were very spicy. I asked the cook what he put on it and he told me that since he didn't have any spices, he borrowed a girls pepper spray and misted...
• Commented on Untitled 1
  first post?...
• Commented on NYPD cop: videoing me breaking the law is a terrorist act
  i dont see why a cop couldnt park in front of a fire hydrant if there was a fire a cop could be radiod at once and get the car removed that being said, i am pretty sure there is...
• Commented on Clock sculpture with more than 150 analog hands spells out the name of the hour
  that could be the most amazing thing i have ever seen....
• Commented on Flickr: Anatomy of a Long Photograph
  the concept of long photography reminds me of andy warhols screen tests http://www.warholstars.org/filmch/screen.html...
• Commented on <i>Super Blockquote</i>: Hewlett-Packard, Workstations Division
  pshaw.. this game is going to be completely out of date in 2100...
• Commented on Photo of honor system at bookstore in Ojai, CA
  most of the bodegas in my neighboor hood in brooklyn don't look the other way when people put money on the counter and walk out with something. i do it all the time actually... much quicker than waiting in line....
• Commented on Chocolate Rain meets Rickrolling = death by YouTube
  I have watched this probably 20 times since I saw it a few days ago. I keep Rick ROlling people with it, but everyones reaction is just "what?"....